Four months later I have finally finished mapping all of the 2011 census subdistricts in India. Thanks everyone for your help!
<https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-L-Rj8LKWiCs/VDgssb7QODI/AAAAAAAAANs/fHCWcCE4yUI/s1600/india_admin3_2011.png> <https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-TrxaRalKrMI/VDgs1HZRbLI/AAAAAAAAAN0/xdjCvdvd8N8/s1600/ia3s.jpg> <https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-qNnf-U6DurY/VDgtpe4mWYI/AAAAAAAAAN8/vO_REgNnBPE/s1600/IVTSFV05yxe7txr10pbv007.jpg> On Wednesday, October 1, 2014 9:16:44 AM UTC-4, Sharad Lele wrote: > > Justin, > > Just one comment: > > "Locations" is a loose concept, and mapped in wikimapia it is even more > vague. As elsewhere, in India, words like location, settlement or even > village mean different things to different people. Census follows a > rigorous definition, using 'revenue villages' as the main unit, with > 'forest villages' in a few cases. In wikimapia, one may see tags for > hamlets that are subsets of revenue villages (but have a different > name), but their data will be part of the census data of the revenue > village. > > Sharad > On 01-Oct-14 6:32 PM, Justin Meyers wrote: > > The last little problem with the census data is that it is missing > > hundreds, if not thousands of locations. In looking at some village > > level data, there are clearly two or more different villages/ > > settlements in some of their village polygons. although OSM and > > wikimapia are crowd projects, I believe some of the data there is > > correct. > > -- > Democratizing Forest Governance in India > (In press with Oxford University Press India) > > -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
